The content of the main article on my site changes dynamically with AJAX. I want to add a footer to the site but because I can't set a static height the footer always appears at the same position as the article (as if the article didn't take up any space at all in the DOM).
I guess the easiest way is to show visually what happens: my site here
If you look at the footer when the page loads you'll notice it's stuck behing the article.
Delete this line for #mainSection .mainArticle:
position: absolute;
Absolute positioning takes your article out of the flow, deleting this line will make its positioning static, and this will make those elements on top of each other as intended.
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On my site http://math.byu.edu
I've been trying to make it responsive to screen size but I noticed a problem when I resize the broawser while on the page. If I shrink and enlarge the browser multiple times the min-height is dynamically getting set to a huge number and I end up with a lot of whitespace.
I've searched my php templates and my css and I can't find anythign that owuld be causing this min-height issue. Does anyone have any ideas?
As per the comments, just comment out the line positionFooter() from the $(window).resize() function.
The reason this theme has this script is to make sure the footer doesn't float into the middle of the page assuming the page has zero content. When the page has zero content, there's nothing to push the footer down. So that script is supposed to keep the footer at the bottom of the page, though it does it poorly.
For future reference, if you need a sticky footer (as it's called), I suggest using Ryan Faits Sticky Footer. Just wrap the content in a main wrapper, make sure the footer is a sibling of the main wrapper then use the supplied CSS to make it work.
Working on a new design using bootstrap3 and trying to stretch the page so that even if there's not enough content to fill the page, the footer section would stay to the bottom.
The reason why I'm using position absolute, is because there's a link from the billing software that's being added within the content, I don't want to remove the link but position it a bit to the bottom in the footer section, in the center bottom, thus since I can't control where this will appear(do know where appears, just can't control), using position absolute on the specific element helps me here.
Now, that's not issue, just saying why I need to use position absolute and why I made the divs like this:
wrapper
>>wrapper_content
>>wrapper_footer
fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/raicabogdan/jsk1b7ua/4/
the footer section is properly set to the bottom, however for some reason, the wrapper_content does not go 100% height automatically on load or on window resize. Also if you resize to mobile view, content will go down few table rows.
The content goes under the footer section.
What am I doing wrong here? Left a fiddle of the html page along with some css that I felt were needed above.
Hope there's someone that could get me out of this.
Cheers.
Try this link. I have used this method to get the footer to stay at the bottom of the window.
http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/
Here's my site in progress: http://www.modernfuture.net/wordpress
Here's my problem: When you click on a post, it takes you to the single post page (like it should). However the footer's stuck in the middle of the page (when it should be placed at the bottom)!
Here's what i've tried:
changing the "min-height" attribute to "height" in the .single class (the class that defines how a single post looks)
&
moving the class attribute from the footer tag to it's parent div.
None of which have worked successfully!
My question: Is there a way to get the footer to behave like it should on the single posts page without compromising the footer style on the main page?
Thanks in advance everyone! I'm totally stumped!
I would suggest fixing this with css. If you would like the footer to always be stuck to the bottom of the page, use position: absolute;, bottom 0px; If you would like to have the footer flow naturally, right below the content of the page, try using float: left;, clear: none;, position: relative;.
I know everyone has problems with their footers, and I have traversed many with no success in practice.
The height of my footer is 121px, the padding-bottom of the main content is 121px.
The elements are positioned absolutely, thus taking them out of the natural flow of the document. Could this be where the problem is?
The CSS is now too big to paste somewhere (unless you have a free 5 mins in which case its at I have stripped it of content and info for the js fiddle)
Thanks.
Clarification: essentially it's a 'sticky footer' so if the content doesnt fill the page the footer sticks to the bottom, then it will scroll down with content. However, the content goes underneath it and stays where it first was on the page.
i dont know what you exactly want to know.. but if you just want to know how your footer is on the bottom of your page, even if the page got scrollbars, you just have to give your css id bottomwrap the position fixed
#bottomwrap {
position: fixed;
}
I've seen Ryan Fait's method for sticky footer as well as one here and here.
Why are these people making templates for sticky footers when #footer{position:fixed; bottom:0;} will suffice?
EDIT:
I will add that using position: fixed; for a footer does break margin: auto; centering in (at least) some browsers, thus creating the need for a wrapper tag. Part of my problem with the above mentioned methods is the extra tags which are confusing, syntactically incorrect (for the "HTML purists") and it eats bandwidth. However, a single wrapper around the footer is still, in my opinion, better than a whole jumbled page template to have to start with. And, "my" way is still more straightforward and eats less bandwidth.
The difference between using position: fixed and Ryan Fait's method1 is pretty fundamental.
When using position: fixed, the footer is always visible, and that's not what a sticky footer is trying to do.
The meaning of a sticky footer is to stay sticked to the bottom, except if the content is longer than the viewport height. In that case, the sticky footer will act like a normal footer, appearing just below the page content.
Here you can see the effect of a sticky footer. In the Result window, you see that the footer stays at the bottom of the page. Click on the 'Add content' button to add content, and then you will see that the footer shifts down to stay below the content.
1. This is a snapshot of 10 January 2013 from the Wayback Machine, as Ryan's website itself does not contain the original post any longer.